The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-26

it he was received with loud and continued
applause, the band playing Aloha De"
Three cheers were then given for the
Colonel. and the battalion sang For He is
a Jolly Good Fellow" Colonel Ashford
was again loudly applauded, and on quiet
being restored he commenced by saying
that multiplicity of other engagements had
prevented the preparation Of such a speech
as such an occasion deserved: but if his
sentiments were not clothed in studied
Language or classic sentences, they still
came from his very heart. However fat
tered he might feel to take this as a per
sonaI or private demonstration, he chose
rather to look at it from the ground of his
connection with military and public affairs
within the period embraced in his COM
mand OF the corps; and that this kind act,
which ever should and would be remem-
bered as one of the pleasantest incidents in
life of many happy memories, indicated
not only continuance of that confidence
which they felt in their Commander on the
Both day of June; but it meant determin-
alton on their part to stand by and uphold
at any cost and against all odds the princi-
pies for which they had that day con-
tended, and shown TO the Hawaiian peO-
pie and the world that, ike better men
one hundred years ago, they were ready
and willing TO pledge their lives, their for
tunes and their sacred honor to achieve
and maintain, He then gave a brief his
tory of the Honolulu Rifles from the time
he had become their commanding officer,
a little over a year ago, when the corps
only numbered about score OF active
members, up to the present time, when
they now number over 800. They would
compare favorably with any corps In any
country in the world. He wanted to see
them stick together not only for self-prO-
lection, bu for the protection of all. The
policy of the Rifles is not one of exclusion,
but one of good-feeling and fellowship
with the Hawaiian people, with equal
rights to everybody. When men from all
parts of the world unite together as they
have in the Rifles we have nothing to fear.
After few more remarks the speaker sat
down amid tremendous applause.
Dr. Tucker also had a few remarks TO
make on the same toast, and presented
the Colonel with a picture representing
him nursing sick baby. The baby, which
was supposed to be CRYING a short time
ago, is sitting on the Colonel's lap and he
is feeding it out OF bottle. The picture,
DIR. Tucker said, tells its own story, and
relates TO the time when the Colonel first
took charge of the Rifles. But by careful
nursing, the baby had now grown to
large, healthy boy.
The Colonel returned his thanks for the
picture in short speech
THE Health of His Majesty's Ministers"
was the next toast, responded to by His
Excellency Private l.. A. Thurston of Com
pany D. He said that he came there to-
night as a member of the Honolulu Rifles,
and not as His M1esty's Minister He
was prouder of being member of the Ho-
nolulu Rifles than being a Minister. Long
| after His Majesty's Ministers had been
| forgotten the Rifles would still be remem-
| bered by the people of Hawaii for the
| good they had done. The Ministers are
! Representatives of the F~>Pl~- -~->d - Ia
tifvfetvzaf rIrsttorssiit3r, and while represent
| ing the people they were no less loyal to
| His Majesty. At the conclusion of his re-
| marks, three cheers and tiger were given
| for Private ThurstOn.
| The next toast, 'The New Constitution, -
was proposed by Captain George Mcleod
and responded to by Private W A Kin
ney of Co. A. He said that, going back %
! years ago to the time the old Constitution
was first promulgated, the King presented
; the Constitution to the people; % years
| later the people had presented Constitu-
! ton TO the King This new Constitution
had yet to make its record, but he felt GER
! tain that it would do so, and good one at
/ that. Sixty days ago we nursed that Con-
/ stitution; now it Is the savior of the coun-
! try. Before concluding he desired to call
| attention to the fact that the Minister of
| the Interior was among them tonight as a
| private in the ranks. sitting with the rest
| of them at table. He stated that this was
| what could be expected of the new regime
| Ministers coming down from off their
| pedestals as Ministers and taking their
! place in the ranks of the company they be-
long to. Loud and prolonged applause
! greeted the speaker at the conclusion OF
! his remarks
/ Captain J. II. Fisher next proposed the
toast "Our Naval Visitors" Three cheers
| and tiger were then given. the band play
! ing Aloha De-"
| Ensign Dyson, of the L. s. S. Adams.
! responded in an appropriate manner, and
| was greeted with cheers.
The toast, 'Our Adopted Country" was
/ proposed by Private McCandless. Three
cheers and a tiger were given for Hawaii,
| the band playing the National Anthem.
| DR.. Tucker responded to the toast. He
/ zFo toR FIok 30
| and he was proud to say so. This was a
| country that ne had sought all his life tor.
/ with a climate that no other country sur
! passed, and which seemed to him be an
/ Eden-a paradise. He went on to eulogize
! its beauties, and after referring at som
/ length TO its past administration, closed
his remarks amid loud applause
Mr.. w. c. Wilder then proposed the
Honolulu Rifles" which was received
with cheers, the band playing the a. Homo